Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,32
He was an engineer and owned his own company, making straddles, whatever they were. His picture looked nothing like Dad though, quite the opposite to be honest. For some reason the word ‘patsy’ came to mind, although I had no idea why.
Familiar words suddenly entered my mind: A day will come and a day will go, a choice you have to make otherwise the truth will never be known.
I promised myself never to wonder about those words again, but I couldn’t help but think about what on earth I needed to do to make them become red.
Taking the wrong path would mean someone close to me will die, just like Brian and Lucian. I can’t follow my foretelling again, but I couldn’t stop wondering why it was so important that it had made the Book of Shadows.
What truth couldn’t possibly be revealed if I didn’t make that certain choice? It was never going to be revealed and I refused to lose any more people I loved.
I snuggled deeper into the duvet and thought about Queen Catherine again. For a couple of days after Lucian died I thought that she had prepared me for his death. He went into a forest and died after he came out, but a few weeks later she showed up again, pointing in that same direction, ordering me to go in.
Now the question that I was constantly struggling with was what was inside that forest that she so desperately wanted me to know?
HE NEXT DAY, I waited on the rocks for Blake for almost half an hour.
Please come, I silently recited in my head.
This was so messed up; for the love of blueberries I couldn’t figure out how the boy that despised me had turned into someone that would keep me from turning dark.
I wasn’t going to tell him this. Becky was right, it would freak him out and he would just think that I’d broken my promise and fallen in love with him.
Not that it would be hard to break. Blake was different when he was with me. Sammy and Becky said that and I could see it in Tabitha’s eyes whenever she saw Blake and me together. She didn’t like him spending this amount of time with me one bit.
The uneasiness of my chest started to fade and it felt as if my lungs opened and I could breathe properly. I knew what it was. Blake was close. I smiled but it disappeared fast. I didn’t know if I loved this feeling or not. Why couldn’t Lucian be here to be this to me?
I laid my head on my hand in thought, letting the sorrow rush over me.
“Sorry I’m late.” His voice came and I didn’t look up because I knew he was butt naked like usual. He chuckled. “You’ll need to get used to that one way or another Elena.”
“Today is not that day, just get dressed.”
“Ouch, what Night Villain spat in your milk this morning?”
“I don’t need a Night Villain’s acid, I’ve got my own.” I looked up and thanked the heavens he had his robe on. He dropped down right next to me. The smell of roast and musk filled my nostrils and for some reason it made me feel a bit drowsy. I swallowed hard and tried to get the dryness out of my throat.
The scent was mixed with a horrible stench and I saw Blake taking in a huge drag of his cigarette.
“I don’t know how you can smoke that.”
“It calms me down.”
You want to know what calms me down….don’t go there Elena.
“So what do you want to talk about today?”
I thought about it for a minute, I had to ask questions otherwise this training thing would end soon.
“How many abilities do we have?”
He gave me an unsure look.
“Seriously. I’m not the enemy here, Blake, and one of my friends already has a dragon. My lips are sealed.”
He blew out a breath. “Ten.”
“Ten?”
“Our flame is pink because of the Red and Blue fire. We can see the future the older we get, we can breathe lightning, chloroform and acid, we can persuade people with our minds.” He picked up a rock and folded it into his hands. When he opened his fist, the rock was frozen. “We can freeze things and as you know heal living things too. The healing part takes some practice and a lot of concentration.”
I didn’t tell him how easily that one came to me.
“We can move objects in our dragon form, and lastly we